Quotes of: Happy-person Keyword

The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the broadest horizons, the best luck, and the most wealth. It says we have the knowledge and know-how to make "informed decisions" that will...

Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for your happiness. I thought perhap...

Clockwork Princess

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a...

Atlas Shrugged

The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining moment of glory that was instantly gone. Where...

The Lay of the Land

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George an...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing...

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Nurse: I'd thought you'd be happy for Miz. Threadgood. Evelyn Couch: [Crying and very upset] Happy? Cuz she's dead? Nurse: No that she gets to go home. She just left in a yellow cab. Evelyn Couch: [Looking VERY confused] I don't understand... Nurse: ...

Fried Green Tomatoes

Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.

Chinese

There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

Korean

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.

Maltese

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Jake Gyllenhaal

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

Jessica Szohr

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Try to be a whole person. Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

The Midnight Dancers

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Dennis Prager

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they...

James Lankford

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

Eric Braeden

I'm not looking for a happy ending. I'm looking for a new beginning.

Castling the Crowns

Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White

Connecting Happiness and Success